Labyrinth Desk – http://www.modernfurnituredeals.co.uk/collections/computer-office-desks/products/labyrinth-work-office-desk
Labyrinth Bookcase – http://www.modernfurnituredeals.co.uk/products/decortie-labirent-bookcase
Labyrinth Coffee Table / Labyrinth Side Table – http://www.modernfurnituredeals.co.uk/products/decortie-labirent-coffee-table
https://medium.com/keep-learning-keep-growing/the-art-of-reading-remembering-and-retaining-more-books-c5bd957adad1
We Read the Books on the Shelf
http://blog.bookroo.com/we-read-the-books-on-the-shelf/
Ticket Books function as a train ride pass and aim to encourage reading in Brazil
In Brazil, These Books Double as Subway Tickets
http://www.psfk.com/2015/11/caffeine-fix-power-caffeinated-toothpaste.html
The Girl on The Hat – Jane Jacobs
“Tina, the girl on the hat, gets into trouble – falling overboard in a pond, exploring a dangerous cave, being kidnapped by two very memorable rascals – and gets out every time with the aid of a peanut! On one level , this book is a Tom Thumb fantasy, but on another, it is the story of a determined and resourceful little girl who grows when she learns compassion and devotes herself to work she likes…”
Citation
Bedtime Reading, Written by a Robot Just for You
“Bestsellers are the books that people who don’t buy books are buying.”
“Delight a critical mass of avid readers. Capture their energy. Let them sell your book.”
“Bestseller tip: People start to read a book because other people are reading it.”
“It’s shared copies that will help create the change you seek in the people around you”
— Seth Godin
http://bookmarketingbestsellers.com/seth-godin-on-the-bestseller-effect/
Using and Abusing Models in Economics: Book Review of Rodrik’s Economics Rules
http://www.neaydinonat.com/blog/?p=1046
“…Researchers at Syracuse University and State University of New York discovered that television programs almost never advocate reading books and lend the impression that one can get all the knowledge one needs from watching TV. They theorize this might be responsible for the finding that “young people who view greater amounts of television are more likely to have a decidedly low opinion of book reading as an activity.””
“Perhaps the medium itself, regardless of content, does damage.
Achievement and Intelligence Japanese researchers conducted some of the earliest research on the relationship between television and impaired academic achievement. In 1962, they published findings that reading skills declined among Japanese fifth to seventh graders as soon as their family acquired a television set.”
“… Across the board, even small amounts of television viewing hurt academic achievement.”
“In the famous 1854 debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, Douglas led off with a three-hour opening statement, which Lincoln took four hours to rebut. During the televised presidential debates of 1987, each candidate took five minutes to address questions like “What is your policy in Central America?” before his opponent launched into a sixty-second rebuttal.(83) This sort of parody is as intellectually taxing a presentation as anyone will see on television.”
http://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/dangers-of-television/
“If the pile of unread books on the bedside table is a graveyard of good intentions, the list of unread books on a Kindle is a black hole of fleeting intentions”
“The smartphone coupled with the open web creates a near-perfect container for distributing journalism at a grand scale.”
“Once bought by a reader, a book moves through a routine. It is read and underlined, dog-eared and scuffed and, most importantly, reread. To read a book once is to know it in passing. To read it over and over is to become confidants. The relationship between a reader and a book is measured not in hours or minutes but, ideally, in months and years.”
“To return to a book is to return not just to the text but also to a past self. We are embedded in our libraries. To reread is to remember who we once were, which can be equal parts scary and intoxicating. Other services such as Timehop offer ways to return to past photos or past tweets. They, too, are unexpectedly evocative. Far more so than you might think. They allow us to measure and remeasure ourselves. And if a resurfaced tweet has an emotional resonance of x, than a passage in a book by which you were once moved must resonate at 100x.”
http://aeon.co/magazine/technology/why-have-digital-books-stopped-evolving/